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(Specimens.)

A. HEALD. WOVEN FABRIC.

^ No. 424,201. Patented MerLZ. 1890.

f2.1 I *fda UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED HEALD, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO HUGH MOCALLUM AND ANDREW J. SLOAN, OF SAME PLACE.

, WOVEN FABRIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 424,201, dated March 25, 1.890. Application led November 30,1888. Serial No. 292,196. (Specimens.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED I-IEALD, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Woven Fabrics, of which the following is a specication.

The object of my invention is to produce economically and rapidly an acceptable substitute for the cut-pile fabrics such as are now employed for carpets, curtains, furniturecoverings, and the like; and this object I attain in the manner hereinafter set forth, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is an exaggerated longitudinal section of a piece of fabric constructed in accordance 'with my invention, and Fig. 2 is an exaggerated transverse section of the same.v

A true cut-pile fabric-such as is produced on an ordinary pile-fabric loom-is an exceedingly difficult and expensive fabric to make, especially when a numberof sets of differentcolored pile-warps are used for the purpose of producing patterns in color in the fabric;

hence such fabrics are exceedingly costly as` compared with fabrics woven in an ordinary loom. Othercut-pile fabrics which have been manufactured are known as chenille fabries, -but in these latter fabrics patterns are formed by a proper succession and arrange- Inent of colors produced in the chenille strips themselves during the weaving of such strips, the patterned or vari-colored chenille wefts being carefully adjusted in respect to each other in weaving the chenille fabric, so that the colors will properly register and form the desired figures. The process of weaving chenille fabrics in the ordinary way is therefore a tedious and expensive one, and these fabrics, also, are costly.

In carrying out my invention I produce a fabric having a cut-pile surface by Weaving the fabric with two or Inore plies, changing these plies from face to face in accordance with the requirement of the pattern and using chenille wefts in either or all of the plies. By this means I am enabled to use chenille wefts each of a uniform color throughout, and which can be woven with the same facility as any other weft-thread, so that the fabric can be produced at a rapid rate and upon the ordinary ingrain-weaving looms now in use.

In the fabric shown in the drawings one ply is formed by interweaving chenille weftthreads A and warp-threads a, and the other ply by likewise interweaving chenille weftthreads B and warp-threads ZJ, the wefts of one ply being of a different color or shade of color from those of the other ply, so that by changing the plies from one face of the fabric to the other patterns will be produced upon both faces of the same, one ply forming the ground of the pattern and the other ply forming the figure. In the fabric shown in the drawings, therefore, the pattern would have a ground of one color and the gure of another color; but it will be evident that there may be two or more colors in either ground or figure by using two or more wefts in the ground or figure set and introducing these wefts successively, as in weaving ordinary ingrain carpet, and there Inay, if desired, be three plies instead of two, so that I am enabled to obtain all the' color effects of ay two or three ply ingrain carpet and yet produce a fabric having a cut-pile face similar to that of an ordinary chenille fabric, my improved fabric therefore forming a veryvacceptable substitute for the expensive Vilton and velvet fabrics, such as are now used for carpets.

I am aware that chenille Weft-threads have been combined with plain or spun weftthreads in producing figured or patterned fabrics, and I do not claim such use, my iinproved fabric having a full chenille face on both sides, such as is possessed by the chenille orl Smyrna rugs, for which it is intended mainly as a substitute.

I therefore claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent-u An ingrain fabric having a number of plies each composed of spun warp-threads and chenille weft-strips interwoven to form a web, these webs changing from face to face of the fabric to form the pattern and the chenille weft-strips forming a full chenille or cut-pile surface throughout each face of .the fabric, substantially as specified. ,Y

In testimony whereof I have signed my naine to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

y ALFRED HEALD. Witnesses:

WILLIAM D. GONNER. HARRY SMITH.

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